MonkRome

If you're insisting that you're going to switch to a car if you can't have a throttle on your ebike, that's your decision to make.

Not just a throttle but at least 20 mph allowable. Realistically the more time it takes out of my day the less likely I am to do it. I used myself as an illustration, the point wasn't about me, its to point out that regulations that cause people to walk away from biking make us all less safe. You're supporting regulation on ideological grounds while ignoring the likelihood of negative real world outcomes. If your goal is to make society safer, this accomplishes the opposite.

What an obnoxious comparison, I bike exactly because I would rather not kill or be killed with a car.

I'm 9 miles from work. My goal is to have an easy ride were I show up without sweating. I put assist on medium and keep the ride easy. Using the throttle to break inertia at every stop is absolutely a part of that, as is being able to go at a fast enough pace were I'm not peddling for the better part of an hour. We are not Europe, we are far more spread out in the usa. The consequence of regulation will be people like me returning to a far more dangerous form of transportation. To me that's not progress: trying to lessen danger by increasing danger astronomically.

Outside of Surrons and other e-dirtbikes, the hysteria over ebikes is mostly car propaganda. Do anything to paint all forms of alternative transportation as dangerous, and get people back into cars (the most dangerous of all). As long as cars are the most viable form of transportation, any additional regulation on class I, II, or III ebikes will only result in decreased usage, and increased driving (which is far far more dangerous). Furthermore, you are also glossing over the fact that people already own these ebikes, and replacing them is not cheap. To me this is not seeing the forrest for the trees.

In an ideal world were we had sensible zoning and transportation infrastructure I might agree with you. But in the sad reality we have, regulations on basic ebikes will make things far far worse.

Where I am its perfectly legal as long as you yield to all pedestrians.

I have an ebike with a throttle, I only use the throttle to break inertia for the first 2 seconds and then I only peddle. It is nothing like a motorcycle. I would immediately stop using an ebike if it was treated as one. I ride safely, never exceeding 20 mph on flats and slow way down for pedestrians while getting passed by mamil's going 30 mph in unsafe conditions. I use bike infrastructure entirely, 50% of which is separated from traffic and ride 1500 miles a year commuting. There is no reason for me to be punished because some dirtbag on an e-dirtbike is being described as an ebike.

The rich have been screwing with the lower classes since the advent of money. Point me to a time in world history where those with money and power didn't abuse the rest of us. The problem with hierarchical systems is the worst people always end up rising.

There was an hour counter when I played per character, I think the problem is you have to add them together.

Probably WoW or LoL, but I'm not going to login to either to check because I switched to Linux and have been boycotting blizzard for over a decade.

Looking it up to refresh my memory, it looks like there's also the comparably very high construction cost and the cost of disposal and/or maintenance of the waste. Those feel like fairly fixed costs. Unless we can make those cheaper without sacrificing safety and worker pay, it seems like nuclear just isn't economically practical.

I thought the primary problem with nuclear is that it is incredibly expensive?

Really not a difficult switch. If you keep it completely free of google, you'll miss google maps the most, imo. If you're switching from a pixelphone you already own, remember to back up contacts, texts, photos, and docs.

I've nearly completely eliminated google from my personal life. Still need it for work, but they also have a long term plan to eliminate it. There are other options. But the thing I miss the most is google maps/Waze. Organic Maps really doesn't compare.